Whitehill Drive, 'Windy Nook'
Whitehill Drive, 'Windy Nook'
HER Number
11051
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Whitehill Drive, 'Windy Nook'
Place
Heworth
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Site Type: Broad
Sculpture
Site Type: Specific
Sculpture
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
1986 by Richard Cole. A sculpture in stone blocks and earth 30m long and 15m wide. The granite blocks came from the old Scotswood Bridge. Resembles a fortification on the top of the hill, a former colliery pit heap. Known locally as 'the fortress'.
Easting
427500
Northing
560700
Grid Reference
NZ427500560700
Sources
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 74